Sometimes I forget you live in Canada with all the stateside traveling you do. I think we should make you an honourary New Yorker.

I'm in so take a vote on that, wudja? I mean I just bought two Mets shirts...shouldn't that count for something?

Carousel's way cool but many of the stores are overpriced. When my daughter was small you could ride the carousel for 50 cents. Now she's a high school freshman. Time flies.
If you saw lacrosse just off 81 it might have been Jefferson CC. On our last spring trip to Kingston, last May (this year's edition is soon)the Cannoneers, as they are known, were playing. It took me a week of internet searching to find out who, as well as the result. Not a lot of publicity there.
I worked with Mel Busler at WATN Radio in the late '70s. He was our sports guy (we'd hide an alarm clock in the newsroom from time to time and set it to go off during his afternoon report) and had a late-night show informally called the Mel Busler Clambake. A super guy.
On a totally unrelated but what-the-heck-I-can-use-all-the-help-I-can-get-note, my brother-in-law, a friend of his and myself are the proud owners of tickets to the Ottawa Senators' first playoff game. We thought it would be Saturday night (CBC and all, don't you know), which would be fine...I have to work Saturday morning and then we could leave.
But no, it's on FRIDAY, so unless the brother of my wife can find someone else willing to shell out the dough for a decent seat, I will be working at the paper Friday morning, coming home for a quick bite, driving to my brother-in-law's house, hopping in his car and schlepping up to Ottawa for the game, then returning, ETA 1 a.m. Then it's another 20 minutes back to my home, wakeup call at 5 a.m., off to work until around noon. An energy drink called BooKoo Berry has done wonders in the past with keeping me awake on very little sleep (I can't stand coffee), so this may be the acid test.
Please, pray for me to whomever or whatever you worship.

You need to eat a few Beaver Tails while in Canada. That'll smarten you right up.

Now that I read my ramblings again, I hope they can cure whininess, too!

Not a chance. But I think you are quite right to forecast feeling like a bag of hammers afterwards. By the way, do you get Canadian TV? There will be at least eight weeks of solid hockey starting Friday on about 87 channels. Time sort of stops for this and when the Cup is awarded, folks shake their heads as they walk out of their basements and say "Good Lord...it's not winter anymore!"

Yeah, and weeknight episodes of Coronation Street stop, too. Stupid hockey.

We used to get CKWS on cable, but they pulled it because of "too much duplicate programming." Yeah, it was great, hockey every single night come playoff time, and back then my beloved Canadiens (who we hoped would be playing the Senators this spring) ruled. I even like Don Cherry (BTW, whatever happened to his Grapevine in Kingston? I have a cool golf shirt from there).
We're on the Time-Warner Cable system, and in other areas around here T-W does still include CKWS. OLN and ESPN, plus the occasional NBC, for us. One game a fortnight or so.
So, the call has come and the verdict is in. My brother-in-law called everyone but W, but no takers. I'm a-goin.'

Good luck, T-Bo. Just remember, you can always nap after work. :-)

Hey Al,

Came across the following website which, given your liking for road travel, diners, signs etc. you might enjoy taking a gander at:

http://www.theamericanroadside.com/

Ranald

Hey, thanks Ranald. That kind of info is gold.